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Warner Classics & Erato releases: July & August 2026

Highlights include:

  • Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony from Nathalie Stutzmann and the Atlanta Symphony
  • Marie-Claire Alain boxed set to celebrate the organist’s centennial
  • Album debut from Joachim Competition-winning violinist Jacques Forestier

New titles

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
CD / digital
Release date: July 24

Warner presents Nathalie Stutzmann’s recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, a cornerstone of the repertoire, made in November 2025 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO), of which she has been Music Director since 2022. Describing the great Austrian late-Romantic as one of her favorite composers, she explains: “I believe that Bruckner’s symphonies are universal. They represent the longing for the eternal.” One of the few women conductors to record the work, Stutzmann has already programmed several of Bruckner’s other symphonies with the ASO, in well-sold concerts that were received with great enthusiasm by audiences and critics alike. Of their account of Bruckner’s Sixth, Arts Atlanta noted: “Stutzmann’s interpretation was of real originality and substance. She took an almost contrarian view of the symphony’s traditions. The ASO played nothing by rote.”
In an October 2024 feature marking the composer’s 200th birthday, Stutzmann told The New York Times: “I always was fascinated by the feelings I was getting when I was listening to a Bruckner symphony. I always felt that the universe he offers us is unique because it’s almost like a life experience. It’s not about telling a story or describing a precise idea. It’s more like if you sit in front of the sea and you listen to the waves. People always think about the grandeur of his music. But there are also so many moments of intimate feelings. The way he writes is so Romantic, but the form itself is super Classical, it’s even from the Middle Ages sometimes. The way he treats the bass line, for example, and the counterpoint for the second violins, the violas. When you finish a concert with him, you feel like you went over five centuries of music in Europe.”
Stutzmann and the ASO give two performances of Bruckner’s monumental Fifth Symphony next season (Nov 19 & 21). Meanwhile, the conductor takes part in a remarkable first this summer, when she returns to the Bayreuth Festival during its 150th anniversary season to lead a new production of Wagner’s Rienzi that represents the opera’s Festspielhaus premiere.

Song & Dance
Jacques Forestier, violin
Boris Kusnezow, piano
CD / digital
Release date: Aug 28

Following his victory at just 19 at the 2024 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition, Canadian violinist Jacques Forestier releases his debut album, Song & Dance, a collection of violin works inspired by voice and movement. The program ranges from showpieces to transcriptions of songs and folk music, with each selection representing a composer who has played a meaningful role in Forestier’s musical journey to date: namely Wagner, Bartók, Gershwin, Wieniawski, Ernst, Brahms, Ysaÿe, and Bach.

Catalogue: boxed sets

Marie-Claire Alain – From Bach to Bach: The Organist of the Century
Marie-Claire Alain, organ
53-CD boxed set
Release date: Aug 21

Born in 1926, Marie-Claire Alain fundamentally transformed the contemporary history of the organ. She recorded hundreds of albums, selling more than 4 million copies, and, over the course of six decades, she gave more than 2,500 concerts, as well as being a prolific musicologist and educator.
Released to honor her 100th anniversary on August 10 this year, this boxed set celebrates Alain’s extraordinary legacy. The collection covers her extensive recording career from 1954 to 2000, in repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach to the 20th century. The set marks the first CD release for a quarter of the collection, including the equivalent of 13 CDs that has been newly remastered in HD 192kHz/24-bit by Art & Son Studio.

Alexis Weissenberg – The Complete Solo Piano Recordings on Erato/Warner Classics
Alexis Weissenberg, piano
37-CD boxed set
Release date: Aug 28

Alexis Weissenberg (1929-2012) made his mark as an exceptional young piano virtuoso when he won the Leventritt Competition in 1947. After a decade-long sabbatical in the 1950s to “reconstruct” his technique, he returned to the stage with a style defined by “steel and soul”: a combination of chiseled sonorities, rhythmic precision, structural unity, and a total lack of superficiality.
This new set includes eight albums now being released on CD for the first time, fully remastered in HD 192kHz/24-bit from the original tapes by Art & Son Studio. Additional highlights include Weissenberg’s concerto partnership with Karajan, his performance of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with Bernstein, and his chamber collaborations with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Montserrat Caballé, Nicolai Gedda, and Hermann Prey.

Upcoming September 2026 releases

New titles:

  • Sep 4: Saehyun Kim, piano – Chopin / Fauré, Assets
  • Sep 11: Emmanuel Pahud, flute – Ceremony: Prokofiev, Hosokawa, Rouse
  • Sep 11: Aleksander Dębicz, piano – 12 Dreams for Piano, Assets
  • Sep 18: Büşra Kayıkçı, piano / composer – Beyond Walls/Istanbul (digital EP), Assets
  • Sep 18: Pierre Génisson, clarinet; Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg; Gábor Takács-Nagy, conductor; Frank Braley, piano; Quartet 212 – Weber: Clarinet Concertos & chamber music 
  • Sep 25: Alexandre Tharaud, piano – Mémoire Home Généalogie

Catalogue:

  • Sep 4: Bruno Walter, conductor / piano – The Complete Warner Remastered Edition (approx. 20 CDs), Assets
  • Sep 11: Herbert von Karajan, conductor; Berliner Philharmoniker – Sibelius: Finlandia, En Saga Tapiola, The Swan of Tuonela, Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5, Assets
  • Sep 18: Pablo Casals, cello – Casals Live 2026 (approx. 26 CDs)

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